Our strongman leaders have been behaving like stubborn, intransigent kings in Greek tragedies, crashing blindly up against justice, convinced that they are right and all others are wrong

The idea that human creativity and innovation is in conflict with the natural order of things is a common trope in Greek and Roman literature

Time for some Lucretius, Apuleius and Virgil

From Homer to Thucydides, plague provided a backdrop for drama

So much was lost, we don't even know what we're missing

There is nothing inevitable about the connection between an interest in the Greco-Roman world and being a posh white man

It's time to reassess one of Greek mythology's most famous characters

Painters can be acute readers of classical poetry

Ancient stories, whether we know them or not, have a kind of purchase in our consciousness. Just look at how our culture portrays stepmothers...

"Hyacinthus was struck, and died—but from the blood a lovely flower was born"